PERSONAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4303, 12 March 1901, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Jas. McMaster has been commissioned to paint a portrait of Mr Seddon. Mr Mac Duff Boyd, well-known in Wellington as a intends to settle ini Hastings. At the Petone Workshops yesterday Messrs Horne, Armstrong, U-odber and Silverwood, who were among the representatives of the Petone Fire Brigade at the conference at Christchurch, were the recipients of presentations from their fellow-employees. Mr W. Eider mad© the presentations. Mr Sydney Hoben, who will be remembered as a successful music teacher in Napier some five years ago, since Which time he lias been in Sydney, has intimatedi Ins intention to return to Hawke’s Bay should sufficient inducement offer. Mr Hoben finds the New South Wales climate too. trying, hence his desire to return to New Zealand.

Mr B. C. Aston, chemist to the Agricultural Department, has received intimation that he has been elected a Fellow of the Chemical Society of Great Britain. In the last number of the

Transactions of the Society the report of the joint work of Professor Easterfield and Mr Aston on the New Zealand tutu was published. ,

Mr John Holmes, the commissioner appointed by the Government to organise the arrangements in connection with the Duke and Duchess of Corn wad, left for Auckland last ’ night. Mr Holmes will have an interview with the Governor, and get his Excellency’s advice about a number of matters,_ and w s ll then at once set about assisting the Auckland people to mature their programme.